Arctic thaw: Finland aims to host Putin-Trump meeting in 2017

Finland is hoping to host a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, who will by then have taken up his role as US president, during the Artic Council summit in 2017.

The Finnish authorities plan to invite Putin and Trump to a summit of the Arctic Council, which the country is chairing from 2017 through 2019.

The date of the event hasn’t been yet set, but Finland’s Senior Arctic Official, Aleksi Harkonen, told YLE: “It’s quite possible that the summit will be held in Finland on the anniversary year of our independence.”